Improvement in cotton-bale ties



JAMES H. GRlDLEY, 0F VASHINGTON, DISTRICT (JF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALB TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,007, dated October23, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J AMES Il. GRIDLEY, of the city of Washington, in theDistrict of Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvements inCotton-Bale Ties; and I do hereby declare the following to be a true andexact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, male ing part of this specification, in which- Figure 1represents atop view of my iinproved fastening for a cotton-bale metaltie. Fig. 2 represents a transverse view of the same in line x m,Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a modification of the fastening represented byFig. 1. Fig. 4 represents one end ot' a metal tie or packing-band formedso that it can be adjusted or taken up in length when applied to thebale. Fig. 5 represents the manner ot' fastening the two ends of a metaltie or band without a separate plate.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

This invention has for its object a simple,

cheap, and reliable fastening for the ends of A metal ties orpacking-bands, particularly those used in baling cotton; and it consistsin having one or both ends ofthe baud cut or otherwise made in dovetailform to tit correspondingly-shaped flanges either on the hoop or on aseparate plate, as will be hereinafter fully described.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains tounderstand and use the same, I will now proceed to l'ully describe itsconstruction and operation.

In Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the drawings, A and A represent the two endsof a metal tie or packing-band cut atits extremities in dovetail forni.B represents a metal plate with flanges b formed upon its sides or edgesfor the dovetail end ot the band to llt into when the two are puttogether to form the fastening.

rIhe plate B may be made of cast, wrought, or malleable iron, or et anyother suitable metal, malleable iron heilig preferred because it istough and can be cast into the required shape, so as not to require anylitting or iinishing after it is taken from the mold and cleaned toadapt it for use.

The iiangcs b on the plate ll may be made as represented in Fi. l-thatis to say, hooked in form; or they may be made as represented in Fig.-that is to say, to stand at right an gles with the bottom of the plato,and have at about their center lips a projecting inwardly from them tecatch over the edges of the band, and thus prevent the latter fromworking out over the tianges when placed between them to form thefastening.

The edges ofthe band formin g the dovetail represented in Fig. 3 arenotched to allow the dovetail end to be placed between the lianges, thelips passingl through the notches, when, by a slight longitudinalmovement of the band, it is securely fastened to the plate.

Nhen the llanges b ofthe plate B are made as represented in Fig. 1, theends ofthe band simply require to be eut in dovetail form.

For ties or packing-bands not subjected to great strain the flanges maybe formed on one endet' the band to lit a dovetail eut ou the other end,thus dispensing with the separate plate.

The ends of the bands may be eut inte the required shape to fit betweenthe liauges of the plate by passing them between rollers having raisedsurfaces 011 one roller and corresponding depressions in the other, orthey may be eut in a die or otherwise.

Having' thus described my invention, what I claim therein as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cottonbale or other tie so constructed that the fastening is madeby the edges of said tie, in connection with corresponding anges on theopposite end of the tic or on a separate plate having said flanges onit, substantially as described.

2. The plate B, having lianges b cast or otherwise formed on its edges,in combination with the ends et' the tie, when said ends are eut indovetail forni, substantially as dcscribed.

3. The plate B, having the anges b on its edges and lips u, asdescribed, in combination with the tie having a dovetail end withnotches cut in the edges ot' said dovetail, substantially as described.

JAMES H. GRIDLEY.

Titnessesz ALEX. A. C. KLAUCKE, SoLoN G. KEMON.

